A power-driven hand tool. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Kochubei, Victor G. Koenig, Friedrich, developer of power-driven press. From Wordnik.com. [Subject Index Page 40] Reference
Page 700: Oppressive new mileage standards for power-driven wheelchairs. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Horowitz: You Thought That Was Bad? 22 More Reasons to Fear Health-Care Reform] Reference
They see in each other's eyes the same fascination with our power-driven world. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Will the Democrats Take the Fall for Wall Street?] Reference
Helicopters require a power-driven centrifugal slinger for distributing the seed. From Wordnik.com. [1 Introduction] Reference
If you have that combination of germ phobia and sheer, unadulterated, will power-driven. From Wordnik.com. [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference
The power-driven table may be connected to the public mains system (a.c.) or a car battery. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
This vessel is the product of slow evolution, for it is admitted to be a power-driven balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Friedrich Koenig's (17741833) power-driven press in use, followed by the flatbed press (1811). From Wordnik.com. [c. Machines and Industrial Techniques] Reference
Two main models were introduced; a hand-operated toggle mechanism machine and a power-driven version. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
They both depict the forces of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front as steely, power-driven killers themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo] Reference
Then you should have a good power-driven corn sheller and a small mill for grinding corn meal and buckwheat flour. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
To speed up the process, four power-driven "skyjacks" -- used to clean the outside of skyscrapers -- were installed. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Attempts to describe this identity and to act in its name, are power-driven, normalizing, and exclusionary endeavors. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism in Contemporary Israel.] Reference
A smart, power-driven foreign policy has the potential to infect closed societies everywhere with the germ of freedom. From Wordnik.com. [David Hoffman: The Permanent Campaign Has No Borders] Reference
In brief, conventional treatment calls for an extensive use of power-driven, mechanical and often sophisticated equipment. From Wordnik.com. [1. Historical development and experience with water treatment] Reference
And ironically, this is the same reason why Republicans despise her -- she's just as corrupt and power-driven as they are. From Wordnik.com. [Will the Real Democrat Please Stand up!] Reference
Mr. ROGOW: I want the -- want them to think that Hamilton was -- was, you know, ruthless, totally ambitious, power-driven. From Wordnik.com. [A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr] Reference
Grosvenor carried his arrangement of lights to a near-by corridor, and placed it in the rear compartment of a power-driven loading vehicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
We gave our power away to exercise equipment gimmicks, swamis, and power-driven yoga leaders - which has lead us away from what yoga is all about. From Wordnik.com. [Weight Loss Yoga Challenge: Are You In? (VIDEO)] Reference
In the Northeast part of Thailand, poor soybean farmers who cannot afford power-driven farm tools spend long, tiring hours seeding their farms by hand. From Wordnik.com. [1. The jab-seeder a tool for manual seeding] Reference
They pronounce, and then maintain positions of conflict, refusing to take definitive and decisive action at the risk of losing their power-driven positions. From Wordnik.com. [Saul Segan: Let's Try Something Different This Time] Reference
= -- When the power-driven machine ushered in the new era in industry it lessened both the prestige and the dignity of the individual worker in three particulars. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Looms of this type can usually be power-driven if fitted with a motor, although when classed as a hand-loom they are driven by human power acting via a treadle system. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
"Ha! Ha! Joe, that's a fine idea," laughed the banker, "but I'll bet you the price of the power-driven ice-cream freezer you forgot to order, it was not your own idea.". From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
A year ago I reported to this body an experiment in the commercial production of black walnut kernels by factory methods, including the use of a power-driven cracking device. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
In 1903 the Wrights first flew in a power-driven machine. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
His ego shrouds the objections to his power-driven ambitions. From Wordnik.com. [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference
The Lenovo 3000 Y410 775756Q Notebook PC is power-driven by 2. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Perspective] Reference
Mowing dead or dry grass with power-driven equipment is not permitted between 1 and 8 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference
Blair Atholl in Perthshire, where the power-driven Dunne aeroplane was produced and flown. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
A power-driven aeroplane had been built, and had been flown under the control of its pilot. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
Yes, those early patriots were a bit unruly also, in the eyes of a power-driven, tax-loving king!. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
And there was not a power-driven ground vehicle anywhere in sight, nor anything man made in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference
Comfort features include a power-driven footrest, rear seat leg supports, a posture control recliner and a massager. From Wordnik.com. [MotorAuthority] Reference
His glider was inherently stable, and had funds been available, might have been made into an efficient power-driven machine. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
But not until the coming of the power-driven sewing machine could there be any factory production of clothes on a large scale. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest] Reference
Nine days after this final failure the Wrights made their first successful power-driven flight, at Kitty Hawk, on the coast of. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
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